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Episode 47: Don't Give Up On Vista

November 25, 2007 retromaccast

James and John discuss the Apple IIGS, the first Apple computer with a color GUI.  James shows his Apple logo neon-backlit sign, and eBay auctions include a compact flash-based Apple IIGS and a dubious early Apple telephone. You can view higher quality versions of the images embedded in our  podcasts …

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Sounds of Silence

November 25, 2007 retromaccast

Thanks to a little bug in GarageBand, Episode 47 has a section of silence around three and a half minutes in.  I’ve fixed it and uploaded the corrected version.  I wish I could tell you how to trick iTunes into getting the new version outside of deleting and unsubscribing from …

RetroMacCast
Mac

Episode 47: Don't Give Up On Vista

November 25, 2007 retromaccast

James and John discuss the Apple IIGS, the first Apple computer with a color GUI.  James shows his Apple logo neon-backlit sign, and eBay auctions include a compact flash-based Apple IIGS and a dubious early Apple telephone. You can view higher quality versions of the images embedded in our  podcasts …

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MacMania 7 Report #2

November 7, 2007 retromaccast

My wife, Tonya, drops in on the second report aboard the ms Volendam for MacMania 7. While sailing to Aruba, we had a full day of classes yesterday. Today in Aruba, we enjoyed an afternoon of snorkeling. This post is a day late as Libsyn’s web-based interface didn’t cooperate with …

Apple II

Baker’s COMFY: a few notes

November 3, 2007 BrassTacks

I’ve been working a bit with Baker’s COMFY-6502 code; a few notes of what I have learned so far.

First, a couple of tiny bugs in the genbrc; the code miscounts the size of the branch instructions, meaning that (- l 2) should be a (+ l 2) and so